Wichita lineman · Glen

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopCountry / FolkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-10, and 3 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
WICHITA LINEMAN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 66.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 61-63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 66
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

66 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGIKHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wichita lineman?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Wichita lineman hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Wichita lineman?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 61, 62, 63 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED
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